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Jorge Semprún
Memorys Long Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Jorge Semprún is a leading writer from the first generation of Spanish Civil War exiles, yet studies of his work have often focused solely on his literary testimony to the concentration camps and his political activities. Although Semprún’s work derives from his incarceration in Buchenwald and...
Learner corpus profiles
The case of Romanian Learner English
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Aiming at exemplifying the methodology of learner corpus profiling, this book describes salient features of Romanian Learner English. As a starting point, the volume offers a comprehensive presentation of the Romanian-English contrastive studies. Another innovative aspect of the book refers to the...
European Constitutionalism
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The deep economic crisis that Europe has been facing for several years can be seen as both a cause and a consequence of the political indecision with which the European Community or European Union has been living for so long now. The end-goal of this unique political project has never been clarified....
Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and international conflicts. However, the role of culture and aesthetics in the formation of the public sphere has received...
A Morbid Democracy
Old and New Populisms
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The crisis of democracy in Europe and the inability of the political parties and élites to adequately meet the challenges of globalisation exposes the increasingly fragmented middle classes to the temptations of Euroscepticism, and, in some cases, xenophobia. This appears to be a portrait of contemporary...
Estonians for Europe
National Activism for European Integration, 19221991
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Estonians for Europe provides a unique insight into nearly eighty years of the history surrounding European unification. Concentrating on Estonian aspirations for an integrative organization in international relations, the book illustrates a number of parallels and differences between commonly held narratives of twentieth-century European history.
Identifying Plosives in L2 English
The Case of L1 Cypriot Greek Speakers
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This volume presents the results of two tasks examining the acquisition of plosive voicing contrasts in L2 English by college students with Cypriot Greek (CG) backgrounds. The tasks focus on the different factors affecting plosive identification and the types of errors involving plosives. With respect...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Arbitration is the most widely used alternative method to resolve commercial disputes between parties. Since arbitration in international contexts is equally applicable to legal traditions across the world, there has been incessant effort on the part of all jurisdictions to harmonize principles and...
Towards a Resilient Eurozone
Economic, Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book examines the Eurozone crisis and the possibility of fiscal and political union in Europe, with contributions from some of the most respected experts on these topics. The book explains the complex, multidimensional crises in competitiveness, fiscal matters, banking and politics. During the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
How should the Holocaust be taught in schools, and to what end? What role should religious education play in recounting and remembering this human catastrophe? How has the nature and purpose of religious education changed and developed over time? What contribution should religious education make to...
The Early Byzantine Christian Church
An Archaeological Re-assessment of Forty-Seven Early Byzantine Basilical Church Excavations Primarily in Israel and Jordan, and their Historical and Liturgical Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The observation that domestic artefacts are often recovered during church excavations led to an archaeological re-assessment of forty-seven Early Byzantine basilical church excavations and their historical, gender and liturgical context. The excavations were restricted to the three most common basilical...
The Long Seventh Century
Continuity and Discontinuity in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This volume represents a selection of papers presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium, showcasing the latest scholarship from a rising generation of academics. The volume traverses the globe from Iran to the Atlantic and from Sweden to the Sahara and ranges from the establishment...
Abstracts in Academic Discourse
Variation and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studies collected here combine attention to generic structure with emphasis on language variation and change, thus offering a multi-perspective view on a...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book analyses the subject of medical communication from a range of innovative perspectives, covering a broad spectrum of approaches and procedures that are particularly significant in this field.
In this volume, medical communication is analyzed from various viewpoints: not only from a merely...